Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects of modern civilization on the individual. - Summary by Joseph Tabler
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 1-5
31:12 - Chapter 2
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 6-9
32:57 - Chapter 3
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 10
15:37 - Chapter 4
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 11
12:01 - Chapter 5
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Disgrace of the Nation 1-2
20:19 - Chapter 6
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Unpopularity of the First Person Singular 1-5
37:49 - Chapter 7
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Habit of Not Letting One's self Go 1-3
22:42 - Chapter 8
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Habit of Analysis 1-2
29:34 - Chapter 9
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Literary Drill in College 1-3
27:46 - Chapter 10
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Literary Drill in College 4-10
45:35 - Chapter 11
Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Libraries. Wanted: An Old Fashioned Librarian
26:43 - Chapter 12
Book 2 Possibilities
39:27 - Chapter 13
Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. I — Unscientific
41:48 - Chapter 14
Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. II — On Reading for Principles
37:43 - Chapter 15
Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. III — Reading Down Through. IV — Reading for Facts
30:37 - Chapter 16
Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. V — Reading for Results. VI — Reading for Feelings
43:55 - Chapter 17
Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. VII — Reading the World Together A
31:20 - Chapter 18
Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. VII — Reading the World Together B
37:29 - Chapter 19
Book 4 What To Do Next
54:50